Work & commute · Boggs

Work & commute in Boggs, PA

Most working residents leave Boggs for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are College (18%), Bellefonte (6%) and State College (6%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

140 of 1,125 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 985 Boggs residents head out of town to work, 140 work right here, and 1,071 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Boggs.

985live here, work elsewhere

140live and work here

1,071work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Boggs goes to work

College12.7 mi away

18%208

Boggs (in town)right here

12%140

Bellefonte5.9 mi away

6%73

State College14.7 mi away

6%71

Ferguson19.2 mi away

6%67

Benner8.9 mi away

4%50

Spring7.8 mi away

4%45

Patton13.8 mi away

4%43

Milesburg3.8 mi away

1%14

Pittsburgh120.6 mi away

1%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%404

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Boggs commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

40%

33%

21%

40%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Boggs is balanced between jobs and homes

1.08jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.08 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Boggs are

1,211 jobs are based in Boggs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Boggs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Boggs

1,211 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)36%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)37%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Boggs residents hold

1,125 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+48%

Jobs based in Boggs, 2013 → 2023: 820 → 1,211. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.